US3824326A - Vibrato signal generating apparatus for an electronic musical instrument - Google Patents

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US3824326A
US3824326A US00367399A US36739973A US3824326A US 3824326 A US3824326 A US 3824326A US 00367399 A US00367399 A US 00367399A US 36739973 A US36739973 A US 36739973A US 3824326 A US3824326 A US 3824326A
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  • ABSTRACT A vibrato signal generating apparatus for an electronic musical instrument characterized in that an AND gate circuit is interposed in a circuit connected between a high frequency oscillator and an octave frequency divider, and an astable multivibrator modulated by a vibrato oscillator is provided and is so arranged that the AND gate circuit is controlled by the output signal of the astable multivibrator.
  • a main oscillator for an electronic musical instrument must be very accurate. Accordingly, a quartz oscillator is generally used for the same.
  • an LC oscillator including a variable capacitor is provided separately and in parallel therewith for being selectively used.
  • This LC oscillator is, however, poor in stability and is not suitable as a main oscillator.
  • This invention has as an object the provision of a vibrato effect which can be obtained by using a main oscillator of high accuracy such as a quartz oscillator or the like.
  • the invention is characterized in that an AND gate circuit is interposed in a circuit connected between a high frequency oscillator and an octave frequency divider, and in that an astable multivibrator modulated by a vibrator oscillator is provided.
  • the multivibrator is so arranged that the AND gate circuit is controlled by the output signal thereof.
  • a frequency dividing system in the form of an octave frequency divider there are two systems at present.
  • a first system is such that, as shown in FIG. 1, twelve counter circuits respectively having frequency dividing ratios l/239, l/253 1/45l, are connected in parallel one with another to a high frequency oscillator 1'. If it is assumed that an oscillation frequency of 8369.21 Hz is to be obtained at the output terminal of the first counter circuit, an oscillation frequency fm of the high frequency oscillator 1' becomes 239 times that frequency, that is, 2.00024 MHz. Oscillation frequencies respectively obtained at the remaining output terminals of these counter circuits are shown in the same figure.
  • a second system is such that, as shown in FIG. 2, twelve counter circuits, each being 185/196 in frequency dividing ratio, are connected in series with one another and with a high frequency oscillator 1". If it is assumed that the oscillation frequency of 8372.02 Hz is to be obtained at the output terminal of the first counter circuit, the oscillation frequency of the high frequency oscillator 1" must be 196/185 times that frequency or, in other words, 8869.84 Hz. Oscillation frequencies respectively obtained at output terminals of these counter circuits are shown in FIG. 2.
  • octave frequency dividers 2' and 2" are each frequency-divided into seven stages by using a plurality of I/Z-frequency dividers if it is intended to cover, for example, the whole seven octaves of a piano.
  • the oscillation frequency of a high frequency oscillator l is selected to be higher than the oscillation frequency required by the frequency divider 2.
  • the frequency is chosen to be 4.00048 MHz which is 2 times 2.00024 MHz.
  • An AND gate circuit 3 is interposed in a circuit connected between the main oscillator l and the octave frequency divider 2'. Separately therefrom, there is provided an astable multivibrator 5 modulated by an oscillation frequency (for example, 5 10 Hz) ofa vibrato oscillator 4.
  • the AND gate circuit 3 is controlled so as to be opened and closed by an output signal of the multivibrator 5.
  • FIG. 4 shows a specific example of a vibrato oscillator 4 and astable multivibrator 5.
  • the vibrato oscillator 4 comprises an astable multivibrator and including transistors T1 and T2.
  • the output waveform thereof (FIG. 5(a)) is applied to the base bias terminal 7 of the astable multivibrator 5 through a waveform forming circuit 6 comprising resistors RI and R2 and capacitors Cl and C2 (FIG. 5(b)).
  • the oscillation frequency of the astable multivibrator 5 is higher than several KHz but is lower than the oscillation frequency of the main oscillator 1, and the output waveform obtained at output terminal A thereof changes as shown in FIG. 5(C) as the voltage changes at the base bias terminal 7.
  • the vibrato oscillator 4 may be a phase-shifting type oscillator or the like.
  • the AND gate circuit 3 is opened by the output waveform shown inFlG. 5(0). Thus, there is obtained at the output of gates a vibrato signal as shown in FIG. 5(e). As is seen nearly l/2 of the oscillation frequency fm FIG. 5(d) of the high frequency oscillator I is blocked according to the change of the pulse width.
  • the output of the astable multivibrator 5 is a symmetrical waveform of 20 KHz
  • the quiescent time I, and the pulse width 1 have the relationship I, t 25 p. S.
  • the oscillation frequency of the high frequency oscillator l is fm 4.00048 MHz and the pulse width thereof is 0.25 p. S.
  • the output frequency of the AND gate circuit 3 when such a symmetrical waveform is used can be obtained by the following formula:
  • counter circuit 8 having a frequency dividing ratio of H2 is provided on the output side of the high frequency oscillator l and.
  • FIG. 6 Another embodiment is shown in FIG. 6. It is such that the foregoingcounter circuit 8 required when the vibrato effect is not applied is omitted.
  • the high frequency oscillator 1 is sufficient with 2.00024 l-IMz.
  • a waveform forming circuit 10a directly connected to the output side of the high frequency oscillator l and a waveform forming circuit 10b connected to the same oscillator 1' through a NOT circuit 11.
  • the output terminals of these circuits 10a and 10b are connected to the AND gate circuit 3 through an OR circuit 12.
  • This is the same as the foregoing embodiment except that a two fold oscillation frequency 4.00048 MHz is obtained by adding the output pulses of waveform forming circuits 10a and 10b at the output terminal of the OR circuit 12.
  • the above pertains to the case where the first frequency dividing system octave frequency divider is used. There is, however, no difference even in the case where the second frequency dividing system is used, except that the oscillation frequency of the high'frequency oscillator 1 is lower.
  • the AND gate circuit is interposed in the circuit connected between the high frequency oscillator and the octave frequency divider.
  • an astable multivibrawith high accuracy canbe used as the high frequency oscillator.
  • the oscillation frequency can bestable.
  • a musical instrument comprising oscillator means, octave frequency divider means, gating means coupling said oscillator and divider means, multivibrator means coupled to and controlling said gating means, and vibrato oscillator means coupled to and controlling said multivibrator means, said instrument further comprising switching means selectively coupling said gating means to said divider means.
  • a musical instrument as claimed in'claim 1 comprising counter means interchangeably coupling said oscillator means with said divider means under the control of said switching means.
  • said oscillator and divider means multivibrator means coupled to and controlling said gating means, and vibrato oscillator means coupled to and controlling said multivibrator means, said octave frequency dividing means including a plurality of frequency dividing means connected in parallel and having different frequency dividing characteristics.

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